Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack of clarity could be traced back to Clinton himself. Even as he embarked on his grovelthon--aides took to referring to CNN as the Contrition News Network--he signaled in private that his anger still trumps his sorrow. When he sat down with his Cabinet Thursday afternoon, for the first time since enlisting their support to defend him last January, he bared his soul and watered his eyes and shared some Scripture and defended his record in office. But when Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala suggested that "surely your personal behavior is as important as your policies...
...Clinton was having mixed success with his Cabinet, his stock was sinking even faster with his party on Capitol Hill. Clinton's official supporters, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Dick Gephardt of Missouri, urged members to stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses were appalled by the President's behavior. Members were worried that they would be guilty by association--a chain the G.O.P. was beginning to forge in some ad campaigns in key districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious...
...Clinton's presidency survives the coming weeks and months, it's likely to contain more moments like that one--"remorse ops," you might call them--at which regrets will be offered to his family and friends, to his Cabinet and staff, to Monica Lewinsky and her family (whom he mentioned for the first time at the prayer breakfast) and to the American people. Before this is over he'll be apologizing to our pets. But to anyone familiar with the boom-and-bust cycles of the Clinton psyche--and by now who isn't?--his dark morning of the soul...
...since an unproductive meeting between Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa in San Francisco on Sept. 5, Miyazawa?s office has dodged attempts to set further discussions with U.S. officials. And last Friday, on the eve of Obuchi?s summit with Bill Clinton, his chief cabinet secretary abruptly canceled a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley in Tokyo. The cancellation may have been partly in response to what Tokyo sees as a rather flaccid American response to North Korea?s launch of a missile over Japan two weeks...
...this duplicitous approach reveals the false-hood of his contrition. And if the nation needs more evidence of how he truly feels, it need only look at his angry treatment of his Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala during last week's cabinet meeting, at which he was supposed to apologize for lying to his advisers for the better part of a year. When Shalala questioned the president's separation of political and moral authority, he reacted to her criticism by turning the assault back on her, further proving that he believes his actions are beyond reproach...